Shakespeare Uncovered
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There?s daggers in men?s smiles. Ethan Hawke takes you along as he researches the part of Shakespeare?s murderous Macbeth.
Air date: 01/26/2013
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All the world?s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Joely Richardson looks into a pair of cross-dressing comedies, with their missing twins, mistaken identities, and characters in disguise: Shakespeare?s As You Like It and Twelfth Night.
Air date: 01/26/2013
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You may my glories and my state depose, but not my griefs; still am I king of those. Derek Jacobi looks at Richard II and returns to a role he played 30 years ago: the story of a king who loses his crown.
Air date: 02/02/2013
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He will give the devil his due. Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare?s history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates.
Air date: 02/02/2013
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To be, or not to be: that is the question. David Tennant meets fellow actors who?ve taken on Hamlet and compares notes on how to play a character that's been played, probably, a million different ways.
Air date: 02/09/2013
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